Arabic.AI
Operations and Security Engineer
Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaPosted 3 days ago
- Salary
- AED 15k–24k a month· est.
- Job type
- Full time
- Level
- Senior
- Field
- Engineering & Technology
- Work mode
- On site
About the role
What you will do • Monitor the platform around the clock, respond to alerts, troubleshoot, fix and restore service. • Handle emergencies inside or outside office hours, and turn around any report the client asks • Patch, harden and run regular vulnerability reviews on every component; keep endpoint protection compatible. • Implement and operate the security controls: identity and access with MFA, RBAC and single sign-on; encryption everywhere; separated dev, test and production; signed and verified automation code; file-type whitelisting; mobile-device restrictions. • Run security logging, audit logs and the SIEM integration; protect logs from tampering. • Secure the APIs: gateway, OAuth 2.0, OWASP API security. • Own backups, business continuity and disaster recovery, and test them. • Run incident response: immediate notification, an initial report within 24 hours, documented procedures with SLAs and escalation. • Write the security architecture and API design documents and the infrastructure parts of the architecture pack, and the bi-monthly operations report. What you need • Linux and Windows server administration on public and sovereign clouds (GCP, OCI, Deem or similar) • Administration of at least two of Qlik Sense, Talend, Dataiku and MS SQL Server, plus GCP services • Monitoring and alerting (Cloud Logging and Monitoring, Prometheus and Grafana or similar) and runbooks • Incident management: triage, escalation, root-cause reports • Identity and access: IAM, MFA, RBAC, SSO integration • Encryption at rest and in transit, key management, certificates • Vulnerability scanning, patching and hardening; working with endpoint-protection tools • SIEM integration and audit-log design • API gateways, OAuth 2.0, OWASP API Security Top Ten • Backup, restore, business continuity and disaster recovery in the cloud Good to have • Terraform and CI/CD; SRE practice (SLOs, error budgets, cost alerts) • MS SQL Server DBA depth • Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer, CISSP, CCSP or ITIL • Experience with national cybersecurity-control audits
Requirements
- Linux and Windows server administration on public and sovereign clouds (GCP, OCI, Deem or similar)
- Administration of at least two of Qlik Sense, Talend, Dataiku and MS SQL Server, plus GCP services
- Monitoring and alerting (Cloud Logging and Monitoring, Prometheus and Grafana or similar) and runbooks
- Incident management: triage, escalation, root-cause reports
- Identity and access: IAM, MFA, RBAC, SSO integration
- Encryption at rest and in transit, key management, certificates
- Vulnerability scanning, patching and hardening; working with endpoint-protection tools
- SIEM integration and audit-log design
- API gateways, OAuth 2.0, OWASP API Security Top Ten
- Backup, restore, business continuity and disaster recovery in the cloud
Responsibilities
- Monitor the platform around the clock, respond to alerts, troubleshoot, fix and restore service.
- Handle emergencies inside or outside office hours, and turn around any report the client asks
- Patch, harden and run regular vulnerability reviews on every component; keep endpoint protection compatible.
- Implement and operate the security controls: identity and access with MFA, RBAC and single sign-on; encryption everywhere; separated dev, test and production; signed and verified automation code; file-type whitelisting; mobile-device restrictions.
- Run security logging, audit logs and the SIEM integration; protect logs from tampering.
- Secure the APIs: gateway, OAuth 2.0, OWASP API security.
- Own backups, business continuity and disaster recovery, and test them.
- Run incident response: immediate notification, an initial report within 24 hours, documented procedures with SLAs and escalation.
- Write the security architecture and API design documents and the infrastructure parts of the architecture pack, and the bi-monthly operations report.
Skills
- Linux server administration
- Windows server administration
- GCP services
- OCI
- Dataiku
- Qlik Sense
- Talend
- MS SQL Server
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Cloud Logging
- Incident management
- IAM
- MFA
- RBAC
- SSO
- OAuth 2.0
- OWASP API Security
- SIEM
- backup and disaster recovery
- encryption key management
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